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Contact Bill DeMaio, Director of Parks and Recreation, 860-826-3360 Mayor Erin Stewart, Parks and Recreation Chairman Matthew Cannata, and Vice Chairman Patrick Dorsey are pleased to announce the installation of a new outdoor exercise equipment circuit at Willow Brook Park for use by the public. As part of the ongoing renovation project at Willow Brook Park which saw synthetic turf installed at Veterans Stadium as well as a new 9-lane track and rebuilt throwing areas, this unique exercise equipment will be located near the shot put throwing pits and hammer cage on South Main Street near the NBHS ABC school. The state-of-the-art equipment circuit, manufactured by Tri Active America, is...

Jenna Vollono, a resident of New Haven's Westville neighborhood and an East Haven native, was spotted on the corner of Whitney & Trumbull aves. on the opening day of her new business, Hive Hair Studio (93 Whitney Ave., New Haven).
CTNow: Are there...

A decade ago, on a bleak March day in 2004, Geno Auriemma sat down in a blue plastic chair inside the gray hallways of Gampel Pavilion and began to chat with the basketball writers who were finishing their day's work.
The coach was a month from winning...

WETHERSFIELD — For 30 years, this health-care quality improvement company has faced next to no competition.
Qualidigm, founded in 1983, heavily depends on government contracts, and most of its work is collaborating with nursing homes, hospitals, visiting...

Nolan D. Archibald, who led the former Black & Decker into a deal to create New Britain-based Stanley Black & Decker and then served as the new company's executive chairman, brought home $123.6 million last year, federal filings Tuesday show.
The...

Standing on a platform 20 feet off the ground, about a dozen medical students stand behind leafy branches, waiting their turn to fly through the trees. The platform they are standing on is not fastened to the tree in any way. Instead, a series of...

In a development that stunned those outside his immediate family and a few close friends, Mayor Anthony P. LaRosa announced Monday he was giving up the position he has held for more than seven years, effective immediately.
LaRosa, 60, dropped the...

I've convinced two of my boys that waking up early and running a 5K is a fun way to spend a morning. Before you imagine happy-faced kids motivated by fitness and together-time with Mom, forget it: I buy them a half-dozen doughnuts on the way home. Every...

Tina Nanos' life was bogged down by her weight for years."I thought about it. I was overweight for a very large portion of my life," said Nanos, who lives in Wallingford with her husband and two children, 13 and 5.But when her weight...

No, Joe Manganiello won't growl, so don't ask. Nor will he yell, 'Stella!"
Not that I was going to ask the "True Blood" actor since this is an interview about the theater, art and soul-searching topics but sometimes he says his fans —...

In May 1918, with America embroiled in the First World War, Iowa's Gov. William Lloyd Harding dealt a blow against Germany. His Babel Proclamation — that was its title; you cannot make this stuff up — decreed: "Conversation in public places, on...

This week, a deeply troubled Navy reservist got himself killed during a murderous shootout in Washington, D.C. Last year, suicides caused more deaths in the U.S. military than active combat around the world. Something must be terribly wrong.
To help rein...

Active participation in an unpleasant event can be an effective way to learn. Some youth church groups, for example, conduct a voluntary exercise called the 30 Hour Famine. By going hungry for a time, they learn more viscerally about hunger than they...

A study by The Hartford Financial Services Group and MIT found that drivers in their 60s and early 70s who performed specific exercises improved their physical ability to drive a car.Those who took part in the study found that their ability to move...

With competition for students intense among colleges, having a state-of-the-art recreation center is becoming critical. According to collegeview.com, such facilities are "designed to lure students to the school, and keep them happy while they're...

With every pound of the pavement, the daily stresses seem to fade away. The house chores aren't in front of you. The calendar, filled to the brim with activities requiring aggressive mileage, is nowhere in sight.
"It's almost like...

Has your heart ever skipped a beat? If you have experienced an uncomfortable awareness of your own heartbeat, you could have an arrhythmia.
An arrhythmia is any change in your heart rhythm. The heart may beat too fast, too slow or beat irregularly....